Phrase thesaurus
Awkward Phrases
113 phrases and expressions related to "awkward".
Phrases
- A Hard Day's Night (Beatles song and movie)
- A good man is hard to find
- A hard man is good to find
- Accept a wooden nickel
- As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
- As hard as a rock
- As hard as iron
- As hard as nails
- As ugly as sin
- Awkward age
- Awkward squad
- Be hard put to
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Big ugly
- Blow hard
- Come down hard on
- Come to a sticky end
- Coyote ugly
- Curve ball (a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology)
- Die hard
- Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
- Do it the hard way
- Do the hard yards (Put in the hard work necessary for success)
- Does a wooden horse have a hickory dick?
- Drive a hard bargain
- Fall on hard times
- Farewell to the ugly cigarette (Eve Cigarettes advertising slogan)
- Go hard
- Go hard or go home
- Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
- Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan song)
- Hard act to follow
- Hard and fast
- Hard aport
- Hard astarboard
- Hard at it
- Hard case
- Hard cases make bad law
- Hard cash
- Hard cheddar
- Hard cheese
- Hard copy
- Hard done by
- Hard drinker
- Hard evidence
- Hard facts
- Hard feelings
- Hard hearted
- Hard hitting
- Hard knocks
- Hard labour
- Hard lines
- Hard liquor
- Hard luck
- Hard nosed
- Hard of hearing
- Hard on
- Hard on the heels of
- Hard pressed
- Hard put to it
- Hard row to hoe
- Hard shell
- Hard stuff
- Hard times
- Hard to come by
- Hard to pin down
- Hard to place
- Hard to swallow
- Hard to take
- Hard up
- Hard words
- Hard work never did anyone any harm
- Hard work never killed anyone
- Hard, cold cash
- Hold hard
- Hurry hard
- It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog (Beatles song lyric)
- Laboured breathing
- Make life difficult
- No hard feelings
- No hard feelings (An injunction to forgive and forget following a dispute)
- Old habits die hard
- Play hard to get
- Pretty kettle of fish
- Pretty pickle
- Pug ugly
- Put in the hard yards
- Put on the wooden overcoat
- Put the hard word on
- Rode hard and put away wet
- Saturday's child works hard for a living
- School of hard knocks
- Sticky fingers
- Sticky situation
- Sticky wicket
- Take a cold hard look
- Take a hard line
- That Friday feeling (anticipation of the weekend after a hard working week)
- The Good The Bad And The Ugly (Clint Eastwood movie)
- The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer
- The quality of mercy is not strained (from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare)
- The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
- This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
- Ugly duckling
- Ugly is only skin-deep (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
- Ugly mug
- Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
- Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire
- While in Europe, pick up an ugly European (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
- Win the wooden spoon
- Wooden Heart (Elvis Presley song)
- Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
- Working hard or hardly working?